This has been said before, I’m sure, but Nicole seriously needs to lighten up. I’m curious if something bad may have happened to her in Dreamland that made her reject the whole idea and try to forget what happened by saying that it was all just a dream?

What was it I saw the other day? Some cartoon where the loser in question was being told by their imaginary friend that it was time they started seeing other people.

I just thought of a way for Alex to give Nicole something to think about. If changes to his body show up both here and there, he should challenge her to put some kind of mark on his body where he can’t see it – like dying a small patch of hair on the back of his head a different color – just before he goes to sleep. Then all Alex has to do is ask one of his friends in Dreamland to tell him what it looks like.

When he wakes up, he can tell her what the color is. If he really wants to mess with her mind, he can tell her he used a mirror in Dreamland to see for himself. It’d be fun watching her trying to explain away that one!

Not going to happen though. Ah well…. It’d be far more likely for them to try to think of a way to use Alex’s cousin for some sort of confirmation. Which Nicole would put down to his just being a kid.

Short of finding a way to have Nicole turn up in Dreamland herself – or finding her old imaginary friends to dig up some childhood dirt on her – I don’t see Nicole being convinced by anything they say.

‘it’s’ – in today’s comic is incorrect. You only need an apostrophe (EVER) when ‘it’s’ is a contraction for ‘it is’ – but if you are speaking in the possessive form, as Nicole is, then ‘We haven’t even begun to understand its capabilities.’ is correct grammar. I have actually corrected the grammar of the entire sentence – I think Nicole – of all people – would use proper grammar. If you are open to it, I feel certain that your readers are willing to make these corrections as move ahead! 😉

Whether she would or not, the text shown is an adaptation of her dialogue, and bow “its” and “it’s” are pronounced the same way. Whether it is “correct” or not is only relevant in the context of written text, absolving Nicole of responsibility.
And I assume you have some reason for starting your paragraphs in the lower case?

Scott… just remember that it’s is a contraction meaning ‘it is’ also, it’s one of the hardest things to get correct in the English language… judging by the number of times it’s used incorrectly. (I *almost* used the other form as a ‘joke’)

How I find it easiest to gauge which version of “It’s/Its” to use is since “Its” is possessive, and the word “His” is possessive as well, ends with an ‘s’, and has no apostrophe, I substitute “his” for “its” and see if it would still work. If it does, then I use “its”. Seems a complicated way of doing it, but for the sake of correct grammar, I think it’s worth it.

As far as the comic is concerned, I am not so sure that Nicole is Felicity. After all, Felicity is a cat woman and don’t humans keep their form in Dreamland? I guess we’ll have to tune in to find out. I know I will. 🙂

Shouldn’t Nicole listen to herself? If there are thousands of kids across the world who talked about Dreamland, doesn’t that mean Alex is one of them? And what she said about the mind, doesn’t that mean there’s a possibility that Alex could travel to another world via the mind?